[General]

1. Which city is famous for its shell-like opera house?
2. What and where is the Big Ben?
3. What famous battle began on October 23, 1942?
4. In which sport was Don Bradman famous?
5. Which country won the Russia-Japanese War of 1904-1905?
6. Which European first saw the Pacific Ocean?
7. What was the Pony Express?
8. The famous Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy was already leaning when it was completed in 1372. True/false?
9. Name the second European country after Britain to become industrialised?
10. In which year did Sigmund Freud, a physician establish the practice of psychoanalysis ?
11. What are the names of the Three Musketeers in Alexander Dumas’ book?
12. How far away does space begin?
13. The metric system was devised in France in 1795. There are 100 centimetres to the metre. How many grams comprise a kilogram?
14. Which part of the body is affected by conjunctivitis?
15. Who captured the rainbow?
16. Which expensive food contains fish eggs?
17. Who was the first scientist to produce nuclear fission?
18. Which famous structure stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean?
19. Paavo Nurmi won seven races in six days at the Olympic Games held in Paris in 1924. True/false?
20. When and where was the first oil well drilled?

[Answers]

1. Sydney Opera House in Australia.
2. Big Ben is the bell in the Clock Tower of London's House of Parliament?
3. The Battle of Alamein, in North America.
4. In Cricket. He is considered a legend.
5. Japan.
6. A Spanish conquistador (conqueror) named Vasco Nauez de Balboa.
7. A postal service linking the eastern United States of America with the far West. It began on April 3, 1860 at a time when the railway went no farther west than the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
8. Yes. Part of the upper works were straightened during construction to counteract the lean, however, the lean kept gradually increasing over the years.
9. Belgium.
10. He was born in 1856 and lived for most of his life in Vienna, Austria.
11. Athos, Porthos and Aramis
12. About 160 km (100 miles) above your head.
13. A 1,000 grams.
14. The eye
15. The British scientist Sir Isaac Newton first demonstrated that sunlight which is white light contains all the colours of the rainbow. In about 1665, he placed a glass prism in a beam of sunlight and saw it produced a rainbow - like pattern of colours.
16. Caviare
17. Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi in 1934. He did this on a very small scale in his laboratory.
18. The Panama Canal.
19. True. He was known as the ‘Phantom’ or Flying Finn.’ He held more than 20 world records. He used to run carrying a stopwatch in order to check his own speed.
20. Pennsylvania, USA in 1859.